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Unrealistically boring characters
I think sometimes we over-fictionalise fiction. I am not talking about our tendency to write wholly outlandish or unrealistic stories. I am not bashing high fantasy, or science-fiction, or Roald Dahl....
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Free weight-loss tips at discount price
Having trouble losing weight? Your diet or exercise program isn’t quite working? Here are three easy tips guaranteed to help you. Though your doctor does not want you to hear these tips, we offer them...
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Time-saving Tips, Post #1: Outlining (and Black Riders)
This is the first in what will hopefully be a series of posts aimed at helping me (and you) to save time. I fully realise the irony of world-class time-waster Leinad writing this series, but really...
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The Dismal Science of Middle-Earth (TCWT December blog-chain)
It’s been a long time, but the “Teens Can Write, Too!” blog-chain has returned. Hooray! And Miriam Joy has come up with a worthy prompt to get things going again. Which fictional world would you most...
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Film Review: The Desolation of Smaug
Warning: Spoilers, including spoilers for parts of The Hobbit that will be covered in the third film. I’ve been away so long you’d probably thought I’d done a Bilbo, and gone off to foreign parts in...
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Talkies, Part 1
In the late 1920s, the talkie films were born. This was the new age. Suddenly, many of the old great silent actors couldn’t compete — all that miming and slapstick wasn’t much use any more. Others, who...
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A Short Announcement
This is a very short post to inform you that the estimable Liam Wood has just given me a guest post on his blog, This Page Intentionally Left Blank. Feel free to spend your day how you wish, but I...
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Is this what dying feels like?
On Wednesday, I wrote a short story for a past exam paper question, in preparation for my end-of-school exams in October. The goal was to practice quickly writing a good story, as well as to produce...
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Teens Can Write, Too September blog-chain: Let’s Begin
Hey everyone. Do you know what day it is today? I just looked at the calendar… and it’s the 26th of September. Which means I’m scheduled to post in the TCWT blog-chain! Usually, by this time, I have...
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Stutter
Like a stutter, You draw the pen across the page, then blot it out. Try again. It must must be perfect this time. Perfect? Does perfection exist? Will you ever see him on the treadmill at the gym, Or...
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In which Leinad graduates from high school
On Tuesday, Leinad walked into a large, brick church building and sat down on an old sofa in the foyer. He waited around for a while, glancing briefly over a sheet of paper with some scribbled facts...
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Book Review: Hope Beyond Cure
We will all, one day, die. That realisation can be a terrifying thought, and one that we are remarkably good at pushing to the back of our minds, but we all have to face it at some point. Nothing sets...
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Flash Fiction: Cold, Blinding Light
Thanks to Rachelle O’Neill for organising this flash fiction challenge! Sorry I am late in posting my story. Thanks as well to Athelas Hale for giving me my prompt: as instructed, I will write a story...
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Short Story: Shadows in the Gloom (HSC English Extension 2 Major Work)
Last year, I completed the NSW HSC (finished Year 12 and graduated from High School). One of my HSC courses was English Extension 2, whereby I basically spent the whole year working on a single 8000...
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This is the first in what will hopefully be a series of posts aimed at helping me (and you) to save time. I fully realise the irony of world-class time-waster Leinad writing this series, but really...
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The Dismal Science of Middle-Earth (TCWT December blog-chain)
It’s been a long time, but the “Teens Can Write, Too!” blog-chain has returned. Hooray! And Miriam Joy has come up with a worthy prompt to get things going again. Which fictional world would you most...
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